The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque

The Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s and the violent controversies that surrounded it appeared to pass two very different judgments on the France of the Third Republic. The outcome o the trial-Captain Dreyfus convicted without guilt and the real traitor acquitted despite guilt-demonstrated without questi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Martin, Benjamin F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Trials.
Female offenders.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Criminelles > France.
Proces > France.
Female offenders > France.
Criminal justice, Administration of > France.
Trials > France.
France.
France > Histoire > 1870-1940 (3e Republique)
France > History > Third Republic, 1870-1940.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s and the violent controversies that surrounded it appeared to pass two very different judgments on the France of the Third Republic. The outcome o the trial-Captain Dreyfus convicted without guilt and the real traitor acquitted despite guilt-demonstrated without question the extraordinary hypocrisy of the military justice system. But the furor raised by Dreyfus' conviction and the agitation for his release suggested that the injustice of the courts' verdict was uncharacteristic of French society; that for France as a nation the rendering of justice was paramount.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780807153789

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